Friday, 19 April 2013

With author interviews, book launches, and readings the new Abaddon & Solaris YouTube channel is perfect for a little lunchtime viewing if you're looking for new reading challenges and fancy plunging into our plethora of worlds.

The team behind the two imprints is beavering away to bring you audiovisual entertainment to go alongside your reading pleasure and we'll be adding more fresh content about our forthcoming titles, as well as trailers, so keep your eyes glued to our Twitter and Facebook feeds for alerts about the latest videos.

“If you’re looking for a sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal
slant,

Wendig has established himself as the go-to man.” – The Guardian

“Chuck Wendig has raised the bar of the urban fantasy genre” – New York Journal of Books on Blackbirds

The master of in-your-face
visceral horror, Chuck Wendig, returns to Abaddon Books with a brand new title
and a brand new world that is not to be missed – Gods and Monsters: Unclean
Spirits!

The gods and goddesses are real.
A many-headed pantheon—a tangle of divine hierarchies—once kept the world at
arm’s length, warring with one another for mankind’s belief and devotion. It
was a grim and bloody balance, but a balance just the same. When one god
triumphed, driving all other gods out of Heaven, it was back to the bad old
days: cults and sycophants, and the terrible retribution the gods visit on
those who spite them.

Five years ago, it all went
wrong for Cason Cole. He lost his wife and son, lost everything, and was bound
into service to a man who chews up human lives and spits them out. Now, as the
man he both loves and hates lies dying at his feet, Cason is finally free. And
no gods, demi-gods, acolyte, or monstrous abomination is going to stop him from
getting back what’s his...

Wendig is a massive talent with
a huge online following and Gods and
Monsters is a brand new world he has created for Abaddon Books. Pat
Kelleher is to continue the series with the e-title Gods and Monsters: Drag Hunt,
which will launch online on the same day as Unclean
Spirits.

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Abaddon Books is very pleased to
announce that desk editor David Moore is to be the imprint’s new commissioning
editor.

David will oversee Abaddon
Books’ new commissions as well as creating more new original shared worlds – joining
series such as the zombie-themed novels of Tomes
of the Dead, the post-apocalyptic Afterblight
Chronicles, and the Steampunk adventure pulp of Pax Britannia.

This year Abaddon Books will
launch two new series – Chuck Wendig’s Gods
and Monsters (named as one of the ‘Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy
books of 2013’ by io9) and Toby
Venables’ Guy of Gisburne, as well as
more in the Weird Space series by SF
legend Eric Brown.

Editor-in-chief of Abaddon Books
and Solaris, Jonathan Oliver, said: “Ever since David started with Rebellion
Publishing, it’s been clear that he has an incisive eye for what makes a story
work and an editorial hand that gets the best out of a book, while maintaining
a great relationship with the author. I’m really excited to be handing over the
Abaddon reins to David and can’t wait to see what he plans for the imprint.”

David said: “I’ve loved every
minute of my time with Abaddon Books so far: we punch above our weight, take
risks, produce the books we want to and have fun doing it. Getting a chance to
take the helm on the imprint Jon put so much of his love and energy into, to
steer it through the next few years and stamp my own mark on it, is incredibly
exciting. Also scary. Very scary. I’ve already changed trousers twice today.”

Born and raised in Australia,
David has lived in three different countries, but as of last year has spent
more than half his life in the UK. A life-long geek, passionate reader and
aspiring writer (he began the first of, to date, five unfinished novels, Eight-legged Aliens, on a Commodore 64),
David has been writing for magazines and websites for 15 years, working in the
publishing industry for three, and picking on people’s grammar and spelling
since he could walk. His past career has been mixed, to say the least,
including bar and theatre work, providing technology support in the banking
sector and filling tea and coffee pots in an architectural firm. He lives in
Reading with his wife, Tamsin.